Josh and Tabatha Garrison show off a 46-inch redfish caught recently in the northern Mosquito Lagoon on a trip with Capt. Drew Cavanaugh. The fish was sight-casted to with a live blue crab. The fish was moving with a small school of over-the-slot reds. It was photographed and released.

President Reagan put out a nationwide appeal Saturday for a 3-year-old girl whose family desperately needs money to pay for an operation that replaced five of her organs.At the close of his weekly radio address, the president mentioned Tabatha Foster of Madisonville, Ky., who received a new liver, small intestine, pancreas and parts of her stomach and colon in a nearly 15-hour operation that ended Nov. 1 in Pittsburgh.Tabatha is the world's longest-surviving five-organ transplant patient, Children's Hospital officials said.

ORANGE COUNTY - Funeral services for Mason Towns, a 12-year-old student killed last week when he stepped into the path of a pickup, will be at 2 p.m. today. The service, open to the public, will be at 2 p.m. at the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witness at 5114 Adanson St. off Lee Road. Mason, a special-needs seventh-grader at Lockhart Middle School, was killed last Wednesday morning as he waited for his bus outside the Lake Weston Point apartments off Forest City Road. Florida Highway Patrol troopers said Mason was hit by a truck just north of a school speed zone, but the driver did not appear to be at fault.

Tabatha Foster began to breathe on her own without a respirator Wednesday and passed a critical 72-hour mark after her five-organ transplant. But doctors warned she was not yet ''out of the woods.''The 3-year-old from Madisonville, Ky., began breathing on her own about 9:30 a.m., said Children's Hospital spokeswoman Lynn McMahon. The experimental operation had taken nearly 15 hours and ended Sunday,Tabatha's condition was upgraded from critical to critical but stable, McMahon said.''She is now breathing on her own,'' she said.

The refusal of Miami mother Maria DeSillers to use donated money to pay for her son Ronnie's three liver transplants has apparently caused severe fundraising problems for a Kentucky girl who recently underwent a multiple- organ transplant.Three-year-old Tabatha Foster gained worldwide attention last month when she received a liver, pancreas, small intestine and parts of a stomach and colon in a marathon operation at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.But Tabatha's parents have received only $50,000 in donations toward a $250,000 hospital bill that continues to soar, said Joseph Williams, a Pittsburgh attorney who has established a fund to pay for the child's care.

Josh and Tabatha Garrison show off a 46-inch redfish caught recently in the northern Mosquito Lagoon on a trip with Capt. Drew Cavanaugh. The fish was sight-casted to with a live blue crab. The fish was moving with a small school of over-the-slot reds. It was photographed and released.

It took a little schoolwork, some athletic know-how and guts to land a 13-year-old Orange City girl on national cable television this week.Tabatha Harnage, an eighth-grader at DeLand Middle School, finished second out of three competitors on Nickelodeon's Guts, which pits children younger than 14 in obstacle course races.The weekday show, which was shot in March at Universal Studios, will air at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday on Nickelodeon (Channel 41 for Cablevision Industries subscribers).Tabatha saw the notice for show tryouts last year in the newspaper - required reading for her seventh-grade geography class.

Ponytail flying, Tabatha Harnage rushed to her class at DeLand High School on Monday clutching a pink backpack and embracing courage.The freshman settled into a seat against the wall and waited for her advisement teacher to welcome her to the new term.Like a cheerleader, Debbie Honeycutt paced before the class, leading a pep talk to start the school year.Back-to-school excitement and blues were anticipated as about 40,000 students in Volusia County's traditional-calendar schools returned to the classroom Monday morning.

Glen Hendrickson is a veteran marathoner, with 17 years of long-distance runs in America and Europe to his credit.But instead of competing in the historic 100th running of the Boston Marathon in April as he planned, Army Reservist Hendrickson found himself monitoring military convoys in Taszar, Hungary.On Saturday, Hendrickson, 38, an Orlando federal court worker, and the rest of his 34-member unit stepped off a bus at the U.S. Army Reserve Center in Orlando and into the arms of eager family members.

Ponytail flying, Tabatha Harnage rushed to her class at DeLand High School on Monday clutching a pink backpack and embracing courage.The freshman settled into a seat against the wall and waited for her advisement teacher to welcome her to the new term.Like a cheerleader, Debbie Honeycutt paced before the class, leading a pep talk to start the school year.Back-to-school excitement and blues were anticipated as about 40,000 students in Volusia County's traditional-calendar schools returned to the classroom Monday morning.

It took a little schoolwork, some athletic know-how and guts to land a 13-year-old Orange City girl on national cable television this week.Tabatha Harnage, an eighth-grader at DeLand Middle School, finished second out of three competitors on Nickelodeon's Guts, which pits children younger than 14 in obstacle course races.The weekday show, which was shot in March at Universal Studios, will air at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday on Nickelodeon (Channel 41 for Cablevision Industries subscribers).Tabatha saw the notice for show tryouts last year in the newspaper - required reading for her seventh-grade geography class.

Jennifer Buttery drives to Lake Como Elementary School once a week to visit third-grader Tabatha Lewis.The two spend much of their time together working on Tabatha's reading skills. But there's always time to do the things the 9-year-old likes best - playing games or working puzzles.Buttery, an account assistant at J. Rolfe Davis Insurance Agency in Orlando, is more than just a fun friend to Tabatha.She's also a mentor - one of 18 volunteers from three Orlando companies who take time out of her work week to help a Lake Como student needing extra time and attention.

Attorneys for the parents of a teen-ager suing Altamonte Springs over a 1985 arrest must prove the officer who made the arrest had a history of violence.Seminole Circuit Judge C. Vernon Mize Jr. said Tuesday there are no facts to support the suit's allegation that the city was careless and negligent in hiring Patrolman William A. Cribbs because of his previous violent nature.Mize said he would not dismiss the suit, but would require attorneys for the parents of Tabatha Ann Hicks, 18, Altamonte Springs, to provide evidence to support their claims about Cribbs.

President Reagan put out a nationwide appeal Saturday for a 3-year-old girl whose family desperately needs money to pay for an operation that replaced five of her organs.At the close of his weekly radio address, the president mentioned Tabatha Foster of Madisonville, Ky., who received a new liver, small intestine, pancreas and parts of her stomach and colon in a nearly 15-hour operation that ended Nov. 1 in Pittsburgh.Tabatha is the world's longest-surviving five-organ transplant patient, Children's Hospital officials said.